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#20 Israel, Christian Zionism and the return of Jesus

Ask NT Wright Anything

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The Imminent Perusea

In Revelation 23 Peter says Jesus declares three times that he is returning to the earth soon or quickly well it's been almost 2000 years and still know Jesus granted God does exist outside of time and a day to him is a thousand years but Jesus is talking to people who exist inside of time why use such potentially misleading terms like soon or quickly? I think as Lucy says what does that mean Aslan Aslan says I call all times soon I don't think that's a cop out I think it was Lewis's way of saying that God doesn't work on the same timescales as we do. The Jewish people between when they were in Babylon and when some of them at least came back to

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